Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 91
Is it not my own lovely cherub that lies there."
Who acts: dream, own lovely cherub · What happens: not be, lie · To what, where: own lovely cherub
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, own lovely cherub), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cherub | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cherub | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cherub | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cherub | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cherub | amod |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cherub | amod |
| 7 | cherub | cherub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lies | nsubj |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cherub | acl:relcl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lies | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cherub | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cherub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | dream | my own lovely cherub | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | my own lovely cherub | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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